MUTASA Central MP, Trevor Saruwaka (MDC-T) has suggested that Gukurahundi atrocities in the Midlands and Matabeleland provinces must also be included in the controversial national school pledge currently being recited by schoolchildren, ostensibly to instil a sense of patriotism.Saruwaka made the proposal yesterday when Primary and Secondary Education minister Lazarus Dokora appeared before the Ne

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday threw down the gauntlet and told war veterans they have no legal or moral standing to dictate who should succeed him.Officially opening a meeting of the Zanu PF central committee in Harare, Mugabe threatened punitive action against the war veterans’ top leadership, which has thrown their lot with Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa and has lately been pushing the

FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe yesterday made security agents and sound engineers run after she complained about the poor sound quality just before stammering through her prepared speech at the official opening of the ZAOGA Forward in Faith Ministries-owned Mbuya Dorcas Hospital (MDH) in Harare.State security agents moved behind the public address system controls and started giving sound engineers instru

A WOMAN from Pumula suburb in Bulawayo has been fined $100 for lying that her husband, who is a soldier, was threatening to shoot her and their six-year-old child.Army officials and the police raided their house, looking for the gun and arrested the soldier.Priscilla Mabvuure, 24, pleaded guilty to a charge of supplying false information to a public authority when she appeared before Western Commo

A MAN from Bulawayo allegedly attacked three sisters in a bushy area and raped one of them four times at knife point, while the other two waited at a distance.Sifundo Ngwenya, 37, a court heard, only released the victim and fled when police officers approached the scene.The woman met Ngwenya recently, about five months after the sex attack, which occurred on January 28 this year, and alerted the p

A 47-YEAR-OLD Bulilima woman was burnt beyond recognition in her bedroom hut in a suspected case of suicide following a long illness.Sikhona Dube of Madlambuzi died on Wednesday morning while sleeping alone.  She had tested HIV positive while her husband tested HIV negative.Chief Madlambuzi confirmed the incident which occurred in his area at around 5AM. He said it is suspected that Dube deci

PRIMARY and Secondary Education Minister Lazarus Dokora has said more than one million people across the country were consulted before the government came up with the National Pledge which is being recited in all schools.He said most of the extracts of the National Pledge were taken from the national Constitution which he said was a product of national consensus after it was subjected to a referen

ARCHER Clothing has trimmed its workforce by 200 to 400 citing lack of orders locally and tight competition on the export market.The resuscitation of the Bulawayo-based firm by Paramount Garments in 2014 saw Archer increasing its workers from 200 to 600 last year.Paramount Garments managing director Jeremy Youmans told Business Chronicle they had scaled down operations due to lack of orders.“We�

FIVE family members, aged between four and 70-years-old, died on Tuesday evening in Masangula communal lands, Mwenezi, after they ate food suspected to have been laced with poison.Sylvia (7) and Beauty Baloyi (4), Tafadzwa (7) and Takudzwa Pote (4) together with Esther Kungali (70) of Village 7 in Masangula allegedly complained of severe stomach pains and died within minutes of each after they had

Simbanashe, President Mugabe’s first grandson, yesterday made his maiden public appearance with his parents Bona and Simba Chikore, while accompanying First Lady Amai Grace Mugabe at the official opening of Mbuya Dorcas Hospital in Waterfalls, Harare.Although Simbanashe did not follow the official proceedings with his parents at the high table, Zaoga Forward In Faith church co-patron Dr Eunor Gu

THERE is need to review the current framework on vacation leave for teachers as it tends to give them an unfair advantage over other civil servants, since they have three months holiday per year coupled with a three month leave entitlement after seven years, Senate heard yesterday.Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Deputy Minister Tapiwa Matangaidze said while Government agrees that teacher

Post-mortem results for the six children who died following an early morning baptism session in a stream by a self-styled prophetess in Sadza, Mashonaland East Province on Monday have revealed that they drowned.Chief national police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba confirmed yesterday.“Post-mortem was conducted and the results showed that they died as a result of asphy

THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday said its recent blitz on ministries, parastatals and local authorities was constitutional and will continue “until a corruption-free Zimbabwe is attained”.The anti-graft body defended the behaviour of its investigators, led by chief investigations officer Servious Kufandada, saying they were acting at the instructions of the Commission.ZACC inv

PATSON Dzamara, who recently released an effigy that he claimed was his missing brother, MDC-T activist, Itai, in detention, has been arrested.Police chief national spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba confirmed the arrest yesterday.“I can confirm that he has been arrested and investigations are still in progress,” she said without revealing further details.Police recent

THE killer kombi driver, who last month fled the country after fatally knocking down a Harare Girls High School student in a hit-and-run accident, was yesterday sentenced to an effective jail term of six years and eight months. Wadzanai Mabika (41) was sentenced by provincial magistrate, Tendai Mahwe after he pleaded guilty to culpable homicide and five counts of contravening the Road Tra